From: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:01:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2
Message-ID: <200701212001.l0LK1ofV022758@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <7v7ivg1a25.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> writes:
> > Anything you can do to make tester's life easier will always slightly
> > increase the number of testers.
> > ...
> > Pre-release tar.gz and rpms coupled with a freshmeat announcement should
> > get you a bunch of testers and newcomers. This will give the new doc a
> > real trial, and will help discover traps in which beginners often fall.
> 
> One worry I had about releasing git-1.5.0-rc2-1.rpm and friends
> just like the "official" ones was that people might have scripts
> to automate downloading & updating of packages, and they may not
> like to get "beta" installed for them.

Then put them into a "testing" or "pre-release" directory...
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